Jason Bateman Trashes ‘Horrible Bosses 2,’ Calls It ‘Garbage’

It’s rare when an actor with Jason Bateman’s stature in Hollywood admits that a project just didn’t work. That said, Bateman did just that when it was brought up on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.

Maron has a wonderful way of getting actors to open up in a candid way that usually doesn’t happen during sit down television interviews. During the podcast, Bateman admitted that Horrible Bosses 2, the sequel to the wildly funny and popular Horrible Bosses, just didn’t work out.

Bateman even compared the Horrible Bosses sequel to “garbage.”

At the time, he explained, “A lot of people saw the first one, but there are plenty of films that made a lot of money where no one is interested in seeing another one. People just weren’t interested in seeing another one. ‘We saw the first one, we had fun, and I don’t need to go see a second one.'”

Later on in the conversation, Bateman said that the audience was to blame. He jokingly said that it was the audience’s interest in the first Horrible Bosses flick that led to an underdeveloped sequel.

“Don’t go out and buy a bunch of tickets for the first one unless you want a second one, ’cause we don’t have any discipline in this town. It’s a path of least resistance.”

As for why he agreed to the sequel, Jason Bateman was honest and said that he did it for the money, which means he wasn’t exactly thinking about the creative stamina a sequel could have.